Beautuful job, Brad.

Here is what I suggest before you start with the aerobatics. Do a complete ground check, checking everything closely, including the battery. Check connections to all control surfaces, on both ends (servo end and the control surface end) to make sure all is secure and ready to fly. Check that the control surfaces move in the right direction by standing behind the aircraft and moving the sticks. Right rudder should move the rudder to the right (same direction as you rudder stick). Move the aileron stick to the right, the right aileron should go up and the left should go down. Pull back on the elevator and it should move up. Start the engine and do a quick re-check of contol surfaces. Do a range check.

When ready to fly, get it in the air and do some relaxing orbits just to get rid of the butterflys in your stomach... ha.. Then do a purposeful landing following the usual downwind, turn to base, turn to final. Don't land, just do an approach with the plane coming RIGHT AT YOU. Go around, do an orbit or two and do it again.

On the third approach, either land or do a touch-and-go - land it then immediately take off.

Do this for the first tank each day you are out at the field. Do nothing but approaches and landings. Practice that and you will never have a problem with landings.

Next fuel tank, take off, climb high somewhere in the sky above you and pull the throttle to idle and don't touch it. Do an "emergency" dead-stick approach. Once on a good final, slowly add throttle and climb back up to a high altitude, but in a different part of the sky and do it again.

I'll tell you this.. you will never be sorry you practiced all these things, especially the dead-stick because you never know when that will happen and you want to get it on the ground quickly and safely.

After that, knock yourself out and do stuff.. whatever you like.

If you do this each time you go out to the field (believe me when I say this.. I do it even to this day) you will never regret it.

Best of luck and enjoy that new plane.

CGr.